Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
This is a story about hunger.
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María kn...
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil4.2 ⭐
First-Time Caller
Aiden Valentine has a secret: he’s fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore’s romance hotline, that’s a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in...
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First-Time Caller4.2 ⭐
Old Man's War
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interst...
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Old Man's War4.5 ⭐
The Favorites
She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family’s support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets H...
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The Favorites4.2 ⭐
The West Passage
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no ...
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The West Passage4.5 ⭐
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless American storyteller, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. In these eighteen startling tales un...
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The Illustrated Man4.5 ⭐
The Strength of the Few
The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am.
But with all that has happened—with what I fear is...
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The Strength of the Few4.6 ⭐
Honey and Spice
Sweet like plantain, hot like pepper. They taste the best when together...
Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an exper...
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Honey and Spice4.2 ⭐
The God of the Woods
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s th...
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The God of the Woods4.3 ⭐
Broken Country (Reese's Book Club)
The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship rel...
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Broken Country (Reese's Book Club)4.4 ⭐
The Electric State
A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Fallout and Black Mirror.
In late 1997, a ru...
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The Electric State4.7 ⭐
Debout les morts
Un hêtre peut-il pousser en une seule nuit dans un jardin, à Paris, sans que personne ne l'ait planté ?
Oui. Chez la cantatrice Sophia Siméonidis, et elle n'en dort p...
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Debout les morts4.3 ⭐
Caught Up
I wanted this woman, and I was a man who always got what he wanted.
Nico Junior Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. She is sweetness and laughter, whereas Jun...
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Caught Up4.2 ⭐
The Bright Years
One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull ...
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The Bright Years4.4 ⭐
The Family Recipe
Duc Tran, the eccentric founder of the Vietnamese sandwich chain Duc's Sandwiches, has decided to retire. No one has heard from his wife, Evelyn, in two decades. She aban...
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The Family Recipe4.0 ⭐
Helm
Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind — a subject of folklore and awe, part-elemental god, part-aerial demon blasting through the sublime landscape of Northern England si...
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Helm4.6 ⭐
Black-Owned
Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned booksto...
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Black-Owned4.0 ⭐
Cursed Daughters: A Read with Jenna Pick
When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman....
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Cursed Daughters: A Read with Jenna Pick4.3 ⭐
The Will of the Many
I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their mo...
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The Will of the Many4.7 ⭐
Earthlings
As a child, Natsuki doesn't fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells her...
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Earthlings3.8 ⭐
You Like It Darker
“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—bot...
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You Like It Darker4.6 ⭐
Neuromancer
Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new...
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Neuromancer4.3 ⭐
The Girls Who Grew Big
Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother’s home in the small town of Padua Beac...
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The Girls Who Grew Big4.3 ⭐
The Persians
The women of the Valiat family are in crisis. Elizabeth, the regal matriarch, remained in Tehran despite the revolution and only has Niaz, her Islamic law–breaking grandd...
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The Persians3.8 ⭐
The Merge
Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary and highly controversial procedure in which two people’s consciousness can be c...
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The Merge4.5 ⭐
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book, following the tale of a curious boy, a greedy mole, a wary fox and a wise horse who...
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse4.8 ⭐
Stranger in a Strange Land
Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is...
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Stranger in a Strange Land4.3 ⭐
Chocky
David Gore becomes concerned that his twelve-year-old son, Matthew, is too old to have an imaginary friend. His concerns deepen as Matthew becomes increasingly distressed...
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Chocky4.4 ⭐
The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick
Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon...
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The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick3.9 ⭐
Heart the Lover
You knew I'd write a book about you someday.
Our narrator understands good love stories, their secrets and subtext, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love sto...
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Heart the Lover4.6 ⭐
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
Arriving at the University of Edinburgh for her first term, Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something from her. She believes she’ll find the answ...
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The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus4.0 ⭐
Lucky Seed
Succession meets Crazy Rich Asians in this chaotic, darkly funny romp about the lengths a wealthy family will take to ensure the birth of a male heir from the gay black s...
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Lucky Seed4.6 ⭐
The Paris Express
Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on...
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The Paris Express4.0 ⭐
Pick a Colour
Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff...
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Pick a Colour3.8 ⭐
Half-Blood Blues
From the smoky bars of pre-war Berlin to the salons of Paris, the narrator of Half-Blood Blues, musician Sid Griffiths, leads the reader through a fascinating, little-kno...
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Half-Blood Blues4.5 ⭐
The Book of Records
Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a bu...
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The Book of Records4.0 ⭐
The Antidote
The Antidote opens on Black Sunday, as a historic dust storm ravages the fictional town of Uz, Nebraska. But Uz is already collapsing—not just under the weight of the Gre...
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The Antidote4.2 ⭐
Finding My Way
This is not the story you think you know. It’s the one I’ve been waiting to tell.
Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack o...
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Finding My Way4.8 ⭐
Careless People
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Faceboo...
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Careless People4.4 ⭐
Audition
Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough ...
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Audition3.8 ⭐
The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah's Book Club
The hardest thing in the world is to live only once…
One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on...
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The Emperor of Gladness: Oprah's Book Club4.0 ⭐
Awake
At 2:30 a.m. on July 11, 2020, Jen Hatmaker woke up to her husband of twenty-six years whispering in his phone to another woman from their bed. It was the end of life as ...
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Awake4.6 ⭐
All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club
In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two...
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All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club4.4 ⭐
All That We See Or Seem
Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the orphan hacker, is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a quiet Boston suburb.
But when a lawyer...
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All That We See Or Seem4.0 ⭐
The Widow
Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elder...
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The Widow4.5 ⭐
Kafka on the Shore
Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed aut...
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Kafka on the Shore4.4 ⭐
Ship Breaker
In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for...
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Ship Breaker4.3 ⭐
Flesh
Teenaged István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. Shy and new in town, he is a stranger to the social rituals practiced by his classmates and...
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Flesh4.1 ⭐
Wonder
I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented hi...
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Wonder4.7 ⭐
The Black Wolf
Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding.
Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and sto...
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The Black Wolf4.5 ⭐
Small Boat
November 2021: an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes in the Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. How and why did it happen?
...
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Small Boat4.2 ⭐
Run for the Hills
Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it’s a bit lonely, she sometimes admi...
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Run for the Hills4.1 ⭐
Old School Indian
Abe Jacobs is Kanien’kehá:ka from Ahkwesáhsne―or, as white people say, a Mohawk Indian from the Saint Regis Tribe. At eighteen, Abe left the reservation where he was rais...
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Old School Indian4.1 ⭐
Girl Warrior
An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate.
To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we ar...
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Girl Warrior4.9 ⭐
Hole in the Sky
On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, a strange atmospheric disturbance is noticed by Jim Hardgray, a down-on-his-luck single father tryin...
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Hole in the Sky4.0 ⭐
The El
An ordinary day in August 1979 dawns hot and humid in Chicago. Teenager Teddy is living with his dad after being kicked out of his mom’s house due to his gang activity. B...
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The El3.6 ⭐
Lessons in Chemistry
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the ea...
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Lessons in Chemistry4.3 ⭐
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, whatever it took, and Jennette w...
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I'm Glad My Mom Died4.7 ⭐
Alchemised
"What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s no one left for you to save.”
...
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Alchemised4.7 ⭐
Convenience Store Woman
Keiko Furukura is a 36-year-old woman who has been working part-time at a convenience store, or konbini, for the last 18 years. She has known since childhood that she is ...
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Convenience Store Woman4.1 ⭐